Our research focuses on how land use and more broadly land systems can contribute to sustainability.

We study land use transitions, i.e. non-linear land use dynamics at broad scale such as forest transitions and emergence of land use frontiers; linkages between globalization and land use including how supply chain transparency and interventions can halt deforestation; theories of land system change; and social-ecological feedbacks.
We are part of the Earth and Life Institute at UCLouvain in Belgium.
(Photo: People from rural communities in Northern Mozambique (2021, C. Chiarella))